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Children of undocumented Mexican immigrants have a significantly higher risk of behavior problems than their co-ethnic counterparts with documented or naturalized citizen mothers, according to a new study.
The difficulties come in two forms: sadness or social withdrawal — what the authors refer to as internalizing behavior problems — and issues such as aggressiveness towards others — which the authors call externalizing behavior problems.
A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
Skin color is a significant factor in the probability of employment for male immigrants to the United States, according to a new study by two University of Kansas (KU) researchers.
A new study of young people finds that, with one exception, whites are more optimistic — sometimes drastically so — than their minority peers about their likelihood of living to 35.
Subsidized campus childcare was hard-won and remains very effective, while budget cuts and the privatization of childcare threaten centers across the country.
Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States, a rapidly growing population who have multiple labeling options.
Do police treat religious-based protest events differently than secular ones? Drawing on data from more than 15,000 protest events in the United States (1960 to 1995) and using quantitative methods, we find that law enforcement agents were less likely to show up at protests when general religious actors, actions, or organizations were present. Rather than reflecting privileged legitimacy, we find that this protective effect is explained by religious protesters' use of less threatening tactics at events.
Although several studies have examined the association between religious involvement and physical functioning, there is no consistent empirical evidence concerning the true nature of the association. The Hispanic population is also surprisingly understudied in previous work. In this article, we employ seven waves of data from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly to examine the association between religious attendance and performance-based mobility trajectories among older Mexican Americans.
A large literature has documented that Hispanic immigrants have a health advantage over their U.S.-born counterparts upon arrival in the United States. Few studies, however, have disentangled the effects of immigrants' arrival cohort from their tenure of U.S. residence, an omission that could produce imprecise estimates of the degree of health decline experienced by Hispanic immigrants as their U.S. tenure increases.
To comply with ideals of multiculturalism and diversity, postsecondary institutions incorporate Latino students into distinct campus cultures. These cultures influence how students interact with one another, the university community at large, and communities outside of campus, ultimately shaping how students inhabit Latino politics. Drawing on data from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork with six student organizations and 60 in-depth interviews, I compare Latino student organizations in a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university.


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The SEE Forum on Climate Change Adaptation aims at increasing awareness of humanitarian, social, economic, environmental and health impacts of climate change in the region and to foster joint initiatives of international, regional and national stakeholders, incl. civil society actors and the Red Cross. Find out more about the "SEE Forum on CCA" here.
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A recent survey by Cerulli showed that wirehouse broker-dealers had about a 43% market share of retail asset management as of end-2010 — down from almost half the market in 2007. Naturally, other distribution channels were gaining, among them independent broker-dealers and registered investment advisors.
Cerulli suggested the wirehouse share would drop to 35% by 2013.
Question: Why are independents and RIAs growing at the expense of the wirehouse advisor?
Anyone who has been talking to advisors in different channels — wirehouses, independents, RIAs — knows the answer: Independents and RIAs are out there prospecting. Wirehouse advisors are not.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule.
From my observations and conversations, new client development is not sufficient to overcome disintermediation and assets lost due to death and normal attrition. The loss of clients through death is compounded by firm account minimums.
Advisors cannot take "starter accounts," and smaller accounts are sent to the hated call centers in New Jersey. Some of those sent packing are the heirs to parents whose advisor is at a competitive wirehouse. So when Momma Oldebucks dies, the assets don't even blow a goodbye kiss.
The independents and RIAs, with no minimum account requirements, are out there scooping up the small change which will become big bucks when she and her generation die.
It's the same problem for investors whose liquid net worth is almost entirely in their 401(k). They may have only chump change outside of that account. When they retire, the wirehouse advisor who would not talk to them is not even in the race. Bye-bye assets.
This puts an even greater strain on the wirehouse advisor to prospect and do so heavily. With this in mind, I recommend the following prospecting strategy.
Prospect Enough
In any class or speech I give on the subject of prospecting, I always ask, "How much prospecting is enough?"
The usual snap answer is, "There's no such thing as 'enough.'"
My response is always, "Not true. There is 'too much' and quite obviously, 'too little.' Therefore, there must be 'enough.'"
We have all known great prospectors. They get so addicted to the adrenaline rush of the hunt that they never develop a clientele. They open an account, sell a product and move on. That's "too much."
The flip side of "too much" is "not enough." This is clearly a condition where new client development does not overcome losses. Asset balances are shrinking, not growing. Too many wirehouse advisors live here.
Your first step in shaking yourself to life is to decide how much is enough for you. Let me give you a defensive and offensive guide that can help you decide.
Defensive: You need to bring in enough new assets to counteract possible asset losses through bad investment performance, client attrition, disintermediation, and assets fleeing as a result of death.
The average wirehouse rep has $94 million under management. If you think the market could drop 6% and you could lose another 4% from these other leaks, then to counteract the hated income reduction plan, you need to bring in $9.4 million a year. If you get market growth and Velda doesn't die as expected, your business grows. But investment performance is down, and if Velda does die and her dreadful nephew takes the money and invests in a racehorse, for your income not to have dropped you need to be bringing in $783,000 a month.
In developing a marketing plan, we generally assume you can get half of that asset goal from existing clients. So your new asset goal from prospects would be about $400,000 per month — a far cry from what is actually being done in the wirehouse channel.
Offensive: Suppose you want to double your business from $94 million to, say, $200 million. Let's assume you want to do this in three years.
You therefore need $106 million more under management. That's about $3 million a month. Again, assuming we can get half of that from existing clients, you need to bring in one and a half million per month from new clients. That's some serious prospecting.
Can it be done? Of course.
There are two great sources of money in motion — death and retirement. You better have your hand in the stream. Let's continue with our strategy.
Always Be Prospecting
Here is the usual pattern when an established advisor begins to prospect.
1. Advisor wakes up one morning with pit in stomach realizing three of his biggest clients are likely to die in the next few months, and that he does not have relationship with heirs.
2. Begins prospecting campaign of some kind.
3. It works. After all, this advisor did not develop a $94 million book by being a prospecting slouch. Yes, I know. You think you developed it all from referrals. Not true. At some point, before you had any clients to refer you, you were out there prospecting. No one ever built a $94 million book from referrals only.
4. Because it's working, advisor does not have the time to continue prospecting and process the new business that is coming in. Therefore, advisor stops prospecting.
5. Some months or years later, the advisor again jolts awake and realizes, "I have to start prospecting. Why did I quit? What was I thinking?"
Guess what? It was not a "thinking problem." You ran out of time.
Question: So how can you keep prospecting?
Answer: Every team must have a person on it whose primary responsibility is new business development.
That is the simple answer. It is the true answer. And it is a bitter pill to swallow because it is expensive. You have to lay out the money first. You might not get it right the first time. But it is the only way an established advisor can continue the prospecting effort.
So buck up. Get that team member. Or if you are under 40, become that team member and inherit the book.
Multiple Channels
Have at least one prospecting channel other than referrals. Here is the harsh reality. In any downturn, advisors who rely only on referrals participate in the income reduction plan. Clients unhappy with their returns do not refer as often. That's why you must have at least one other channel.
To help you with this, I have created a "Prospecting Resource Page," including some past Research magazine articles, white papers and cold calling scripts. You will find these free for the taking at www.billgood.com/prospectingresources.
Quality Control
Maintain rigid quality control over people designated as prospects. These are future clients.
I rarely ask people to commit anything to memory. But you should memorize this definition: A prospect is anyone who has responded or been referred that you would like to do business with.
You have to constantly clean up your prospect file. At the foundation of this definition is this concept: You have to want to do business with them.
If you don't know enough about them to know if you want to do business with them, throw them out. If you don't like them, send them to a digital shredder. If they don't meet your concept of your ideal client, get them out of your file.
There are two reasons for these instructions: (1) Later on down the road, you won't wind up with a bunch of people you don't like and don't want to do business with. (2) If you allow people in your prospect list that you do not care about, and do not want as clients, you will not develop that list. A prospect list must be developed. You must communicate with it.
I have more points to cover, but I'm out of space. You will find these over at my Prospecting Resources page at www.billgood.com/prospectingresources.
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His seminar program, "No More Pies," helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net. And his blog, financialadvisorsmarketing.net, has lots of useful information for advisors who need to beef up marketing. To preview Bill as a speaker, see his YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/BillGoodSpeaker.


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NVIDIA's 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on June 16, 2008 9:00 AM EST
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Lots More Compute, a Leetle More Texturing
NVIDIA's GT200 GPU has a significant increase in computational power thanks to its 240 streaming processors, up from 128 in the previous G80 design. As a result, NVIDIA's GT200 GPU showcases a tremendous increase in transistor count over its previous generation architecture (1.4 billion up from 686 million in G80).
The increase in compute power of GT200 is not mirrored however in the increase in texture processing power. On the previous page we outlined how the Texture/Processing Clusters went from two Shader Multiprocessors to three, and how there are now a total of ten TPCs in the chip up from 8 in the GeForce 8800 GTX.
In the original G80 core, used in the GeForce 8800 GTX NVIDIA's texture block looked like this:
In each block you had 4 texture address units and 8 texture filtering units.
With the move to G92, used in the GeForce 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512 and 9800 GTX, NVIDIA doubled the number of texture address units and achieved a 1:1 ratio of address/filtering units:
With GT200 in the GeForce GTX 280/260, NVIDIA kept the address-to-filtering ratio at 1:1 but increased the ratio of SPs to texture processors:
In the previous designs you'd have 8 address and 8 filtering units per TPC (or 16 streaming processors), in the GT200 you have the same 8 address and 8 filtering units but for a larger TPC with 24 SPs.
Here's how the specs stand up across the generations:
|NVIDIA Architecture Comparison
|Streaming Processors per TPC
|Texture Address Units per TPC
|Texture Filtering Units per TPC
|Total SPs
|Total Texture Address Units
|Total Texture Filtering Units
For a 87.5% increase in compute, there's a mere 25% increase in texture processing power. This ratio echoes what NVIDIA has been preaching for years: that games are running more complex shaders and are not as bound by texture processing as they were in years prior. If this wasn't true then we'd see a closer to 25% increase in performance of GT200 over G80 at the same clock rather than something much greater.
It also means that GT200's performance advantage over G80 or G92 based architectures (e.g. GeForce 9800 GTX) will be determined much by how computationally bound the games we're testing are.
The ratio of increase compute/texture power in the GT200 has been evident in NVIDIA architectures for years now, dating back to the ill-fated GeForce FX. NVIDIA sacrificed memory bandwidth on the GeForce FX, equipping it with a narrow 128-bit memory bus (compared to ATI's 256-bit interface on the Radeon 9700 Pro) and instead focused on building a much more powerful compute engine. Unfortunately, the bet was the wrong one to make at the time and the GeForce FX was hardly competitive (for more reasons than just a lack of memory bandwidth), but today we're dealing in a very different world. Complex shader programs run on each pixel on the screen and there's a definite need for more compute power in today's GPUs.
An Increase in Rasterization Throughput
In addition to the 25% increase in texture processing capabilities of the GT200, NVIDIA added two more ROP partitions to the GPU. While the GeForce 8800 GTX had six ROP partitions, each capable of outputting a maximum of 4 pixels per clock, the GT200 adds two more partitions.
With eight ROP partitions the GT200 can now output a maximum of 32 pixels per clock, up from 24 pixels per clock in the GeForce 8800 GTX and 9800 GTX.
The pixel blend rate on G80/G92 was half-speed, meaning that while you could output 24 pixels per clock, you could only blend 12 pixels per clock. Thanks to the 65nm shrink and redesign, GT200 can now output and blend pixels at full speed - that's 32 pixels per clock for each.
The end result is a non-linear performance improvement in everything from anti-aliasing and fire effects to shadows on GT200. It's an evolutionary change, but that really does sum up many of the enhancements of GT200 over G80/G92.
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gigahertz20 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkI think these ridiculous prices and lackluster performance is just a way for them to sell more SLI motherboards, who would buy a $650 GTX 280 when you can buy two 8800GT's with a SLI mobo and get better performance? Especially now that the 8800GT's are approaching around $150. Reply
crimson117 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkIt's only worth riding the bleeding edge when you can afford to stay there with every release. Otherwise, 12 months down the line, you have no budget left for an upgrade, while everyone else is buying new $200 cards that beat your old $600 card.
So yeah you can buy an 8800GT or two right now, and you and me should probably do just that! But Richie Rich will be buying 2x GTX 280's, and by the time we could afford even one of those, he'll already have ordered a pair of whatever $600 cards are coming out next. Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkNope, the majority of these cards go to Alienware/Falcon/etc. top of the line, overpriced pre-built systems. These are for the people that blow $5k on a system every couple years, don't upgrade, might not even seriously game, they just want the best TODAY.
They are the ones that blindly check the bottom box in every configuration for the "fastest" computer money can buy. Reply
gigahertz20 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkVery few people are richie rich and stay at the bleeding edge. People that are very wealthy tend not to be computer geeks and purchase their computers from Dell and what not. I'd say at least 96% of gamers out there are value oriented, these $650 cards will not sell much at all. If anything, you'll see people claim to have bought one or two of these in forums and other places, but their just lying. Reply
perzy - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkWell I for one is waiting for Larabee. Maybee (probably) it isen' all that its cranked up to be, but I want to see.
And what about some real powersaving Nvidia? Reply
can - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkI wonder if you can just flash the BIOS of the 260 to get it to operate as if it were a 280... Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkYou haven't been able to do this for a long time....they learned their lessons the hard way. :) Reply
Nighteye2 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkIs it just me, or does this focus on compute power mean Nvidia is starting to get serious about using the GPU for physics, as well as graphics? It's also in-line with the Ageia acquisition.
will889 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkAt the point where NV has actually managed to position SLI mobos and GPU's where you actually need that much power to get decent FPS (above 30 average) from games gaming on the PC will be entirely dead to all those but the most esoteric. It would be different if there were any games worth playing or as many games as the console brethren have. I thought GPU's/cases/power supplies were supposed to become more efficient? EG smaller but faster sort of how the TV industry made TV's bigger yet smaller in footprint with way more features - not towering cases with 1200KW PSU's and 2X GTX 280 GPU's? All this in the face o drastically raised gas prices?
Wanna impress me? How about a single GPU with the PCB size of a 7600GT/GS that's 15-25% faster than a 9800GTX that can fit into a SFF case? needing a small power supply AND able to run passively @ moderate temps. THAT would be impressive. No, Seargent Tom and his TONKA_TRUCK crew just have to show how beefy his toys can be and yank your wallet chains for said. Hell, everyone needs a Boeing 747 in their case right? cause' that's progress for those 1-2 gaming titles per years that give you 3-4 hours of enjoyable PC gaming.....
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ChronoReverse - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkThe 4850 might actually hit that target... Reply


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Windows stores its configuration settings in a database called the registry. These settings are constantly modified by the many different programs running in Windows. Users can also make changes to the registry by using the Windows registry editor, regedit. Making changes to the registry is a common way to correct problems and change the way Windows looks and acts.
However, making the wrong registry changes can cripple your Windows system. So before you start hacking away with regedit, you should learn a little about it. This tutorial will explain some of the features in regedit and tell you how to use it safely.
Backing up the registry
Back up the registry before you make changes. One convenient way to do this is to use Windows System Restore. Here's how to use System Restore. Another method for backing up the Windows registry is using a free utility named ERUNT, and here is how ERUNT works. Make sure you understand one of these methods before going any further.
Launching regedit
Unlike most other system tools, regedit will not appear in any of your menus when you click the Start button. That means you'll have to launch it some other way. I'll tell you how to start it using the Run dialog.
To bring up the Run dialog, hold down the Windows key and tap the R key.
Now type regedit into the command entry box and click OK.
Using Regedit
Once launched, regedit will pop up pretty quickly. Here's what it looks like:
First, I'll mention that you can see a Helpmenu in regedit and you'll find plenty of information in it that I won't cover in this tutorial.
The navigation pane (on the left) is showing the 5 main hivekeys, which always start with the word HKEY. To navigate deeper into the registry, you need to click on the plus (+) signs next to a hive key. The same applies the further into registry you go. Once you click on a plus, it will display all the sub-keys under that key and the plus will change into a minus (-) sign. Clicking on the minus sign will collapse the structure back to the way it was.
In the view below, you can see that I've located the key for a piece of software that I had installed.
At the bottom of the window you can see the registry path to this key. Right clicking on a key will bring up a menu showing several actions.
- New, will create a new key under the key I have selected.
- Delete- If this was a program that was no longer installed on my PC, I could safely delete this key.
- The Copy Key Nameaction places the full path to the key in your Windows Clipboard, and it can be pasted as text into other applications, such as email or a web browser.
- Exportaction allows you to save the information under a registry key, and this information can be restored later if it's needed. It's a good idea to export a key before you make changes to it. I'll talk more about exported keys later.
Here you can see that I've navigated down into the Current User hive to take a look at my mapped network drives.
In this view, I have the Zkey open. In the right pane (data pane), you can see the entries for the data values under this key. Each piece of data under a key has a name, type and value. The data name can be almost any string of letters as long as it doesn't contain a space. There are several types of data, as shown above, and you can learn more about them in the regedit help file.
Right clicking into an empty area in the data pane will bring up the Newmenu, as shown above, which allows you to add new data entries. Right clicking on one of the data entries, as shown below, will allow you to modify its value or delete it entirely.
Importing data into the registry
Above I mentioned that you can export a key to save all the sub-keys and data under it. When you export a key, you will see that it wants to save as a REG file.
A .reg file is actually a plain text file and you can open it up in Notepad to see what's inside of it. Here's a look inside of one:
That's good to know, because you will often find registry tweaks published online in plain text as shown in the image above. All you need to do is to copy the text, paste it into Notepad and then save it as a .REG file.
Once you have a REG file that you want to restore or add to the registry, all you need to do is double click on it, or right click on it and Mergeit into the registry. When you do this, you'll get a message asking you to confirm this action.
After you confirm, you'll get a message telling you that the information was entered.
- If you've made changes to the registry, you won't always see an immediate change (if it's one you can see). Many times you will have to log out of Windows and log back in before you see any changes.
- Some free tools make it easy to change your registry without using regedit. These programs are often called tweakor system enhancement tools, such as TweakUI (from Microsoft).
- Here are some sites with lots of registry tweaks you can apply to Windows.
- Here are some tutorials on how to use the registry and REG files.
- Here is a list of free registry tools.
I've told you what the registry is, how to back it up, make changes to it, and finally, how to add to the registry using REG files. Now you have enough information to safely make registry changes, and you can learn even more about these topics in the regedit help file and other places online.


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Lately Itzy has been asking me if we could find her biological parents. I am in hot pursuit and I think I may have come upon something here. . .
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Itzy's Geneology
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hey what's up? you and me should hang out sometime. you are stunning in pink. WOOF. Pico
- April 6, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- LaDawn Lingard said...
I think you are on the right track.
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On average, men have a lower life expectancy than women, and some health problems affect men differently or exclusively. Learn about a wide variety of men's health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and sexual health.
Doctors had never seen a case quite like it: An 86-year-old man showed up at the hospital with the handle of a pair of pruning shears stuck in his eye socket.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall is known as much for his headline-grabbing troubles off the field as he is for his standout play on it.
If you're a woman contemplating surgery on your female parts, you'll find plenty of ladies chatting and blogging away about their experiences, often on websites adorned with pink ribbons.
It was the worst possible news at the worst possible time.
Middle-aged women searching for a safe alternative to hormone therapy to prevent bone loss and ease the symptoms of menopause are in for another letdown.
As Dorrie Aber-Noyek enters the cafeteria at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, the staff bursts into a round of "Happy Birthday."
Viagra gets the job done, but it's a quick fix. For many men, weaning themselves off the little blue pill and finding a longer-lasting solution to their sexual dysfunction may require hitting the gym and putting down the doughnuts.
There I was at a long-awaited dinner with friends Saturday night, when in the midst of our chatting, I watched my right hand sneaking away from my side to grab my phone sitting on the table to check my e-mail.
Anyone who's sought solace in pizza or a pint of ice cream knows that food can be comforting. But experts still don't know exactly why we gravitate toward fatty or sugary foods when we're feeling down, or how those foods affect our emotions.
You've heard (and tried) it all before: down a dozen oysters, watch a marathon of sultry movies, get a couples massage.
When Dr. Carolyn LaFleur was in a car accident six years ago, she couldn't move her neck for a year and a half, she had terrible pain in her hip, and she would get headaches at her temples.
The scorching temperatures affecting almost half of the U.S. population isn't just causing heatstrokes -- it's also causing people to feel drained and more susceptible to other health problems. The humidity can wreak havoc and feel suffocating to people who have breathing or heart-related problems.
You have no interest in being 21 again. (Neither do we.) But, oh, wouldn't it be nice to feel 21 again: The energy! The metabolism! The sense of I-can-accomplish-anything-I-set-my-mind-to!
Research suggests that marriage is good for your health -- especially if you're a man. Married men tend to live longer than their unwed counterparts, they're more likely to see their doctor regularly, and they even have a lower risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.
For two years after a hip surgery that didn't work out as well as he'd hoped, pain shot down Jim Heckler's leg like electrical shocks. Several doctors, eager to help Heckler feel better, prescribed various narcotic painkillers.
Michael Musick is all too familiar with the toll heat can take on the human body.
He's summited Mount Everest. He's walked in space seven times.
You might not realize it, but your doctor could be complaining about you online.
Elaine Farstad got antsy as she waited for her doctor, who was late for her scheduled appointment. Then she got downright impatient. Then, as nearly two hours passed, she got mad. Then she came up with an idea.
Over the past several decades Americans have steadily gotten fatter. Although our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are partly to blame, a big reason for our national weight gain is that we're simply eating more.
Male mice who are exposed in the womb to bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical compound found in some hard plastics and can linings, appear to be less masculine and less attractive to females once they mature, raising the possibility that the controversial chemical could subtly affect boys in similar ways.
Sitting too much will probably shorten your life.
When Hilarie Cash arrives home from work in the evening, she has a choice: She can go outside and tend to her garden or she can hop on her laptop.
Men with prostate cancer who are cigarette smokers at the time of their diagnosis are much more likely to die of the disease or experience a recurrence than nonsmokers, including former smokers who kicked the habit at least 10 years before diagnosis.
Drugs that treat psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, by suppressing the immune system may also reduce the risk of developing diabetes, at least in people who already have one of these conditions, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Nine new graphic cigarette warning labels showing cancerous lesions and other impacts of smoking were unveiled Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, part of the agency's sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco and tobacco products.
The level of support that people perceive in their surroundings when they come out as lesbian, gay, or bisexual is closely related to their mental health and overall well-being, and this may mean that coming out to some people (but not others) is less psychologically damaging than has been believed, a new study suggests.
The first time Wilson Alvarado got lost on the way to a neighborhood park, he told his wife, Patricia, not to worry about it -- he was 62, he told her, and just getting a little forgetful.
Life expectancy in most U.S. counties lags behind that of the world's healthiest nations, in some cases by 50 years or more, according to a new analysis of government data.
It seems like a cliche -- a powerful politician undone by underpants.
In 1985, Edmund White had five or six published books behind him, a Swiss lover with him and the outcome of an HIV test ahead of him. When the results came in, White told his partner:
As much as she would like to, Dr. Lissa Rankin, a gynecologist, will never forget the woman who planned her wedding while lying naked on her examining table.
Mary Kole loves her job, but she's been feeling like she's lost the line between "work" and "not work."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a big, serious government agency with a big, serious job: protecting public health from threats ranging from hurricanes to bird flu.
Dylan Ryan and Danny Wylde knew each other online -- she's read his blog, he's seen her tweets -- before they met in person in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. A bit awkward, they made small talk, spending an hour or so getting to know each other.
Men who drink a lot of coffee might feel a bit jittery or high-strung, but those side effects may come with a hidden benefit: prostate health.
Nick Lott's clothes hang neatly inside his closet. His room is tidy and his bed is sharply made. He says it's "a blessing" that he even has his own room to keep clean.
Dallas Wiens wanted to feel his 4-year-old daughter's kisses again, something he couldn't do after a horrific electrical accident disfigured his face.
It took mere hours to confirm that the person killed in a compound near Pakistan's capital was Osama bin Laden.
His was a suicide with a macabre twist. In February, former Chicago Bears safety David Duerson shot himself in the chest, but not before leaving behind a note requesting that his brain be studied for evidence of a disease striking football players.
If you're going under the knife, you might want to ask your surgeon what she had to drink the night before.
Fifty-one years ago, Frank lost something he considers valuable. It was his foreskin, and Frank would like it back.
There is no health risk from consuming milk with extremely low levels of radiation, like those found in Washington state and California, experts said Thursday, echoing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
I was in the security line at an airport a few months ago when I watched a fellow passenger do something I'd never seen done before: He dissed the scan.
Say it aloud: NUCLEAR. How does it make you feel? Many people have negative associations with the word, feelings that have been magnified since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled a power plant called Fukushima Daiichi in Japan on March 11.
Ryan Jeffers finds it hard to believe his daughter, Malyia, went from being a perfectly healthy 2-year-old who loved to dance, sing and entertain to an amputee facing a lifetime of medical care.
Congress might cut most of the federal funding for your local poison control center, which could mean a longer wait during your next poison-related emergency.
Incontinence can happen to anyone, although it's more common in women than in men.
Nuclear power has generally proved safe and nondetrimental to human health.
Maybe you're the one whose feet can't touch the floor without thick socks. Or you're the one who starts to sweat when your partner cranks up the heat.
In the movie "The King's Speech," there is a pivotal scene where Elizabeth, the future queen, frustrated by the failures of doctors who were trying to treat her husband's stutter, ventures into the streets of London to the office of controversial speech therapist Lionel Logue. So unaccustomed to the outside world, Elizabeth doesn't even know how to properly work the elevator in Logue's building.
When the weather turns frigid, your survival instincts kick in. You jump into a scalding shower, slather on medicated lip balm and blow-dry your hair into submission. Little did you know these common beauty blunders only perpetuate a vicious cycle.
This may rock your winter world: You can't get a cold just from cold weather.
Robyn Nichols always knows when it's going to rain. She can feel it in her bones -- literally.
Gradual hearing loss is a common symptom of aging, but in some people it may also be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, a new study suggests.
Eating a diet rich in fiber - especially the kind of fiber found in whole grains - reduces the risk of dying at an early age from a range of causes, a new government study suggests.
Ida Alvarez avoided close conversations. She was afraid of what someone might tell her. She was pretty sure she had really bad breath.
In her early 20s, the very thing most fundamental to Jessi Teich's career started to turn against her: Her voice.
When 2-year-old Malyia Jeffers developed a fever one Sunday afternoon in November, her parents gave her a children's Motrin and kept a cautious eye on her throughout the night.
Day after demoralizing day, Dr. Doug Lefton watched uninsured patients leave his office needing laboratory tests but unlikely to have them done because of the cost.
Boys and young men who receive the human papillomavirus vaccine appear to be at reduced risk of contracting the virus and developing the genital warts associated with the common sexually transmitted disease, according to a large international study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Shelley Brown spent much of her life feeling ashamed and embarrassed that she didn't know the identity of her father.
The Environmental Protection Agency will set a limit on the amount of the chemical perchlorate, as well as other "toxic contaminants," in drinking water, it announced Wednesday.
Three weeks ago, while recovering in the hospital after giving birth to a baby girl, Rena Jones was amped up and on guard.
Robin Gray's knee had been bothering her for almost two years, but when it finally got to the point where it interfered with her duties as a custodian at Emory University, she knew it was time to take action.
A thumbs up. Two opened eyes. A smile. These simple signs of recognition from U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords kept hope alive for her recovery from a bullet to the head January 8. And later this week, her parents have told family members and friends in an e-mail, she'll be moved to Houston, Texas, to begin aggressive rehab with a team of medical specialists.
During a major storm, the emergency room is eerily quiet. But in the hours afterward, the injured pour in.
Prostate-removal surgery can provide peace of mind to men who hav prostate cancer, but the procedure often carries an unwelcome and hard-to-treat side effect: leaky plumbing.
When Ryan Arnold died after donating a piece of his liver to his brother, Chad, his friends and family mourned the loss of a hero who risked his life to save his brother.
Vitamin D and calcium have long been touted as the best nutrients for strong bones, muscles and teeth. Recent studies have shown that vitamin D could be used to fight cancer, heart ailments, autoimmune diseases, even diabetes.
Kelly, 22, has suffered from depression since age 8. But it's only recently that she realized how much worse she feels when her acne flares up. During the two years in college when her depression waned, so did her skin problems.
Barack Levin recently showed his children where the kidneys are in a human anatomy book, trying to explain why their daddy has been taking so many pills and feeling so tired.
In the California city that banned Happy Meal toys,outlawed sitting on sidewalks during daylight hours and fined residents for not sorting garbage into recycling, compost and trash, Lloyd Schofield wants to add a new law to the books in San Francisco: A ban on all male circumcisions.
Dating someone new means learning about each other's quirky behaviors, emotional baggage, and the experiences that have shaped both of your lives. But what if this involves a health or medical secret you're hesitant to talk about?
Unthinkable errors by doctors and surgeons -- such as amputating the wrong leg or removing organs from the wrong patient -- occur more frequently than previously believed, a new study suggests.
A medical school professor once said to me, "Mysteries are not hidden from us, they are hidden for us."
After completing his second year of business classes at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, in 2007, Joshua Armstrong decided to take a break from full-time studies.
Having three daughters of my own, I was a little nervous to meet 6-year-old Kylie McPeak. She was born just about a year before my oldest daughter and was the picture of health up until a couple of years ago.
Tucked away on the sprawling campus of the National Institutes of Health, an elite team of doctors and researchers search for clues to solve medical mysteries that have eluded a diagnosis.
Jeff Kepner's new hands slump on the table, like ill-fitting, flesh-colored anchors fused to his arms.
In the wake of an outbreak that has left an estimated 1,300 people sick with salmonella infections, and the recall of more than half a billion eggs, a debate is brewing over whether modern farming methods pose a health risk.
Forget diet pills and cleanses. A new study suggests that an effective weight-loss aid is available straight from your kitchen sink.
Permission granted: You can officially stop feeling guilty about those little "bad-for-you" habits you can't seem to break. Turns out, many of life's greatest indulgences bring big health benefits -- helping you stay slim, fight off the blues, and kick disease to the curb.
Chad Arnold clearly remembers the day he received the call from his older brother, Ryan, telling him they were a perfect match for a liver transplant.
I should have known I was in for trouble right from the start.
As the Environmental Protection Agency vans roll from one home to the next, each one marked with a red dot on a map, Dorothy Felix tags along like a proud parent.
Five years ago Molly and Zachery Gray were in the midst of a dark, lonely spiral. It began with Molly's first miscarriage.
Moderate drinking has been linked to a variety of health benefits, including a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. According to a new study, drinking alcohol may also ease the pain of -- and lower the risk of developing -- rheumatoid arthritis, a potentially crippling autoimmune disorder.
When a football player flattens his opponent with a bone-crushing hit, the crowd leaps to its feet and roars approval. When hockey referees break up a fight, spectators often jeer. In the increasingly popular mixed martial arts competitions, bloodied and battered fighters can knee, elbow, and kick each other in the face.
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals in July. Now, a growing body of research suggests that month might be a more deadly time in U.S. hospitals.
A brief chest pain, numbness in the arm or even fatigue is enough to worry Sandra Thornton, a heart attack survivor.
Between puffs of his cigarette, Aristo Lizica explains why he's all for a smoking ban in public housing -- including his own housing project on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. "When you smoke indoors, it hurts everybody," the 59-year-old says, leaning against an iron fence outside his building. "It's better for me to just make myself sick."
States are tracking the health consequences of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, including respiratory and skin irritation problems in Louisiana and Alabama, health officials said.
You eat right. You exercise. You get an annual physical. You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy.
A growing body of research is linking five chemicals -- among the most common in the world -- to a host of ailments, including cancer, sexual problems and behavioral issues.
Worried about toxic waste and chemical exposure, more and more companies and hospitals are moving away from polyvinyl chloride.
When Mark Shields started his job at the American Red Cross in Madison, Wisconsin, he rolled up his sleeve to give blood. It made sense. Part of his job was encouraging the public to donate and supporting the organization's lifesaving mission.
If you didn't know better, you might think that all the energy necessary to get through the ups and downs of an average day could be found in a powder, a pill, or a suspiciously small can. If only! But here's the good news: getting -- and, more important, keeping -- your energy level high is a breeze. Just take a look at these expert tips and tricks.
Chemist Wilma Subra was working at her desk by a picture window one cool June evening in 2006 when the passenger in a passing car fired a single shot in her direction. The bullet lodged in a brick a few feet from where she was sitting.
Lawmakers have scheduled a hearing Thursday to look into the recall of popular pediatric medicines by drugmaker McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which has initiated four recalls of its products in the past seven months.
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This week we say farewell to Girl Friday Suzanne :(
I'm sad for us because she is such a fantastic designer, and seriously one of the sweetest people ever!
What I'm not sad about is that she has been elected to a very prestigious steering committee in her real life job. It's really spectacular news and her life is swirling with possibilities right now.
So while we will miss her, we wish her the absolute best as she explores all that is in front of her :)
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Guile-Avahi is a set of Avahi bindings for GNU Guile 1.8, released under the LGPL v3 or later. It allows programmers to use functionalities of the Avahi client library from Guile Scheme programs.
Avahi itself is an implementation of multicast DNS (mDNS) and DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD). Together, these protocols provide support for fully decentralized host naming and service publication and discovery. More information is available from http://avahi.org.
Guile-Avahi is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version. Releases are available from here.
It requires GNU Guile 1.8.x and Avahi 0.6.x.
The user manual is available here (PDF).
Development questions, issues and bug reports should all go to the mailing-list.
General information is available on the Savannah project page.
Development is managed using the Git distributed revision control system. You can fetch a copy of the source code repository using the following incantation:
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Like many other films by the sly and prolific South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, "In Another Country" is at once a comedy of manners and an oblique commentary on the power of cinema to expose and alter reality. Its three chapters, each a little under a half-hour long, are scenarios dreamed up by an aspiring young screenwriter (Jung Yumi) in the midst of some vague family trouble. The movies she writes, which we see enacted on the screen (with Ms. Jung as a helpful neighbor), are variations on some of Mr. Hong's favorite themes: social awkwardness, sexual frustration and the selfishness of Korean men.
In each vignette Isabelle Huppert plays a Frenchwoman named Anne, who finds herself the only foreigner in an overcast beach town. Whether she is a filmmaker, the lover of a filmmaker (Moon Sungkeun) or a newly divorced spiritual seeker, she finds herself entangled in an odd group dynamic made more so by her cultural and linguistic estrangement. Whatever the situation, she attracts the clumsy, infatuated attention of a lifeguard (Yu Junsang), with whom she communicates in halting, half-shouted English.
Other recurring characters include a pregnant woman (Moon Sori) and her husband (Kwon Hyehyo), whose relationship is unsettled by Anne's presence. Anne is not precisely the same person each time. Her clothes and hair are a bit different, as is her temperament: coy when she wears red, reckless and abrasive in green. The others are sometimes rude, sometimes solicitous, and variously puzzled, exasperated and charmed by her presence.
Which might sum up the experience of this movie, which is never less than moderately interesting but only intermittently more. Mr. Hong's playful formal ingenuity is evident in the way certain shots, scenes and events are repeated with small but significant alterations. He — or his alter ego, the fledgling writer — is pleased to show us how much he can do with a strictly limited set of elements. We notice patterns and motifs without worrying too much about the structure that governs them. Our job is not to interpret things like the repeated theft or borrowing of an umbrella, or the way certain scenes echo one another, but rather to notice that these things are there.
This sense of artifice, and Mr. Hong's fondness for sudden pans and zooms that call attention to the presence of his camera, contrasts with the ordinariness of the setting and the unaffected naturalism of the performances. He is interested neither in conventional realism — he drifts further away from it with each film — nor in equally conventional displays of self-consciousness, but rather in staging collisions between those two styles. A movie may be a representation of the world, but it is also something that happens in the world, which means that sustaining a cinematic illusion and breaking it are equally beside the point.
What the point here might be is a bit more elusive. It may be simply to allow Ms. Huppert, one of the most adventurous actresses in movies, the opportunity to try something new. And that might be enough.


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This week we ride the nostalgia train back to 1979 and JJ Abram's summer blockbuster "Super 8".
Details on the plot of Rob Zombie's upcoming "The Lords of Salem" have finally been revealed and much to my surprise they have nothing to do with Salem Massachusetts. I kid! The plot revolves around a local DJ who unleashes an unholy curse on the town of Salem that a group of witches cast over 300 years ago. I bet this ruins their tourism also.
Stephen King and John Mellencamp have apparently had a musical in the works since 2006 titled "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" and good news kids, it'll hit Atlanta in just under a year. The play focuses on the rumors around the murder of 3 people in a small town in Mississippi and I know I said it before but I'm not sure you understand, Stephen King and John Mellencamp created this. Let that sink in.
According to a recent post on the official facebook page for "Trick 'r Treat", "Sam will return" which would lead the world to believe that the anthology series will see a sequel in the near future. Either that or they know something about a "Cheers" reunion. Either way I'm excited.
A new TV spot for JJ Abrams' "Super 8" has found it's way online and honestly I still have no idea what the movie is about but I think it's somewhere in between "Maximum Overdrive" and "E.T.". Of course I watched the video with the volume down and really only paid attention for a few seconds. "Bert the Conqueror" was on last night! If you want to know how that was I could give you a detailed run down.
Danny Boyle is supposedly being courted to direct a new werewolf flick set int LA called "Sharp Teeth". I assume this is because werewolves have teeth that are sharp and they will present them in a menacing fashion in the movie. That's the best I got folks, the Superbowl was last night, it's a slow day.
The producers who brought you "Twilight" have already picked up a new book trilogy called "Legend". The series will follow a young bugger called Day and his happenings as the country's most wanted criminal. It will also be a series of really awful films. Get excited.
All the world is giddy over the trailer for Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams's "Super 8" that showed last night at the Super Bowl despite that fact that I have no idea what the hell is going on in it. I think there might be aliens who hate trains or cameras or I have no freakin clue. I can't wait for this one.
A new poster and synopsis for Paul Schrader's "The Jesuit" is now online and I have to admit I was way more excited about this one when I thought this was made by the guy who leads David Letterman's band. It does however feature Willem Dafoe, Paz Vega, Michelle Rodriguez and child kidnapping. So that's something to get excited about.
Columbia Pictures has announced that "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D" will hit theaters on February 17, 2012. I haven't received any sort of official memo from my office but I assume we'll be closed for the day in honor of this glorious event. Unless of course you're not going to see it in 3D, you only get a long lunch break then.
A gaggle full of new "Troll Hunter" clips have found their way online and they're full of troll goodness. For those of you not familiar with the film just think "The Blair Witch Project" but with trolls and without all the snot. Upgrade!
Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler are the first two cast members to be confirmed in the J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg collaboration flick "Super 8". The film is rumored to be about a group of kids who film their high jinks on a super 8 camera in the 70's only to discover an alien in the film years later. I wonder if the same thing will happen 30 years from now when I finally watch my wedding video.
Some new stills of the new film "The Mortician" staring the one and only Method Man have been released. Did I mentioned the film is going to be in 3D? It's really implied at this point but I thought you'd be excited to know that you're going to get to see Method Man jump out of the screen and into your lap. Sinner.
LatinoReview.com has uncovered the script for Oren Peli's follow up to "Paranormal Activity", titled "Area 51". Still basking in the glow of his recent success, the studio has been trying to keep close tabs on the details for this one. So, if you don't mind spoilers... be sure to read on.
It was rumored some months past that J J Abrams would be taking on the adaptation of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series. As of today, Abrams has officially announced that he is dropping the project.
Hey "Puppet Master" fans, there's a new teaser trailer out for "Puppet Master: Axis of Evil"!
If James Gunn was the only reason you were holding out for "Scream Queens Season 2", I have bad news for you. Gunn has had to bow out of Season 2 due to scheduling conflicts. On the bright side, that means he's making another movie!
ABC has announced that it will not be renewing "Eastwick", the small screen adaptation of "Witches of Eastwick" after its 13 episode run. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll see Rebecca Romijin-Stamos-O'Connel again soon!


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Grand Budapest Hotel – Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel
by John Seedhouse
There is something about a Wes Anderson movie that makes you sit up when the trailer comes on. We were in a gigaplex somewhere when The Grand Budapest Hotel jumped up and waved at us for two and a half minutes. It seemed incongruous really. We laughed and put it on the must watch list there and then. Watch the trailer and then we can reconvene in around two inches time and I'll tell you where, why, how and if.
See what I mean? Looks like a good romp doesn't it. You kind of have to be a fan I suppose. I enjoyed The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and 75% got with The Darjeeling Limited, so maybe there is a bias there to begin with. Anyway, you are either going to go and watch this film or not and I doubt that anyone will be walking in without some prior consideration of either hotels or Wes Anderson's previous work.
The thought of going to a large impersonal multiplex seemed somehow wrong and we figured we may well be the 2 lone audience members shivering in the cold. We decided to hunt down a little localish bespoke place. Friendly old Google pointed us either north or south.
Having already done the Electric Cinema in Birmingham we settled on 15 mins up the A38 to Barton Marina. There is a little purpose build 2 screen palace called The Red Carpet. Good choice I reckon.
They were nice on the phone and you couldn't pay via the website.
"Don't worry" said the man, "we just take a card when you get here."
We didn't and they did. We went before 4pm and it was a fiver each. We were in the "small cinema" – maybe 20 seats. 6 others were occupied by pensioners. It was rather like nipping round some friend's house for a DVD night.
Perfect location for an intimate film really.
I take photographs of stuff sometimes. I enjoy doing that. The lush cinematography and clockwork nature of the edits made me smile. I went with Mrs L and she will tell you that smiles and me are a rare combination.
There is a "scene" early in the film when Ralph Fiennes' character, the masterful M.Gustave choreographs his staff to set up for the departure of a dear guest which could well be the perfect illustration of how and why Wes Anderson is and does.
Arty is arty and therefore potentially farty if there is no substance to a narrative. Mrs. L is an appreciator of image but does want some good dialogue and character interplay. She got it. Bill Murray makes an appearance. He doesn't say a lot. He doesn't need to. Nobody needs to say too much and that is a good thing. Good actors play the spaces in-between the words and that is why you remember them. Fiennes says "fuck" a lot. It's not a Joe Pesci fuck-a-thon. It's a profanessionally measured dramatic series of snipped percussion and given that there were 6 pensioners to potentially annoy there were no tuts only giggles.
Or maybe should? Yes I would suggest it. You probably already have though. This is more a gentle reminder than a sales pitch from me. I will probably buy it on DVD too. Just don't try to watch it in a popcorn and screaming kids palace.
If it were a bell-hop then I would tip well.
John has been to hotels. He has been to cinemas. John has never stolen the complimentary shower cap. You can find him elsewhere on this blog or here as a professional or here as a grumpy old sod.


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The Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum in Rostock is housed on a former cargo ship.
Here you can see what a large container ship looks like from the inside, inspect the engine room with its four main motors, and take a look at the sailors' quarters, ship's bridge or ship's hospital. This heritage-listed 10,000-tonne cargo ship is moored in the IGA Park on the banks of the river Warnow. The onboard exhibition traces the history of Baltic Sea shipbuilding but also covers hydroplanes, oceanography and sailing.
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Thinking about it afterwards, another 2mph would have been nice. Because 2mph would have taken me to 186, which keen students of unit conversion will recognise as a nice round 300kph. The car certainly isn't the limiting factor, its big digital speedo's digits scrolling hungrily and dizzily away towards the maximum of about 220. But right now, 184mph looks like a big enough number to me. My mind is on matters other than arithmetic: it's streaming with rain, a corner is approaching - fast - and I'm driving a car that's precious and irreplaceable… albeit, I'm thinking, not as precious as my passenger and me. Time to get on the brakes.
Photography: Lee Brimble
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Several potential stumbling blocks have surfaced in the past couple of months that could stymie—or outright derail—release of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Labor's fiduciary rules.
Two bills have surfaced—one in June and the other in July—that attempt to stop Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis Borzi's plan to release a reproposal of DOL's fiduciary rule in the fall. However, at least two industry officials believe that DOL's fiduciary train "has left the station," and is headed to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Then in early August, a group of 10 Democratic senators urged the OMB to carefully review the DOL's fiduciary reproposal to ensure that it doesn't "directly conflict" with or "upend" the Securities and Exchange Commission's work on its fiduciary rule.
Meanwhile, with new data to digest after the July 5 close of its comment period on the costs and benefits of a fiduciary rule, as well as two new commissioners having taken their seats at the SEC, industry officials predict any rule proposal from the SEC won't be released until year-end at the earliest.
"This should take time," said Knut Rostad, president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard. "With new commissioners on board" at the SEC "and new research data to absorb, in some key respects we are starting anew" on an SEC fiduciary rule.
Kara Stein and Michael Piwowar, President Barack Obama's picks to be the two new SEC Commissioners, were sworn in on Aug. 9. Stein, an aide to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., replaces SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter, a Democrat. Piwowar, an economist on the Senate Banking Committee's staff, replaces Republican Commis-sioner Troy Paredes.
For the DOL, the first bill, introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., would require that the Department wait to repropose its fiduciary rule until 60 days after the SEC issues its fiduciary proposal. Wagner's bill, the Retail Investor Protection Act, passed out of the House Financial Services Committee by a 44-13 vote and has been referred to the House Education and Workforce Committee for consideration.
Granted, Wagner's bill would have to pass the full House and get Senate approval, but industry and consumer trade groups worry that it could stop both agencies' rules in their tracks. In a joint letter, the groups—which included the Investment Adviser Association, the Financial Planning Association, the CFP Board, the AARP, the North American Securities Administrators Association and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors—said that Wagner's bill "linking" the DOL and SEC rulemakings would not only prevent the DOL from moving forward with a rule on the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), but the bill "potentially halts DOL's rulemaking altogether if the SEC does not act on a fiduciary rule."
The second attempt by Congress to stymie the DOL's effort to release its fiduciary reproposal came when Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced legislation in early July that would return oversight of IRAs to the Treasury Department—stripping that oversight from DOL.
In the Aug. 2 letter to Sylvia Matthews Burwell, OMB's director, the 10 senators–members of the Senate Banking and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees–said that while they believe the SEC is moving forward in crafting a fiduciary rule that adheres to the congressional mandate set out in Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the DOL's efforts to redefine fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act could work "at cross purposes" to the SEC's rule.
At a minimum, the senators said in their letter, DOL should not issue "final" fiduciary regulations until the "SEC has completed its work" on its fiduciary rule and that "any regulation the DOL ultimately may propose should be carefully crafted so that it does not upend the SEC's work."
DOL has received significant pushback regarding its plan to include IRAs in its rule to amend the definition of fiduciary under ERISA, with the most notable complaint being that advisors would lose their ability to earn commissions on IRA advice.
The provision to nix DOL oversight of IRAs is included in a bill, the Securities Annuities for Employee (SAFE) Retirement Act of 2013, which would create a new public retirement plan in which insurance companies pay benefits through annuity contracts. The measure includes wide-ranging modifications to 401(k)s, including expanding employers' ability to offer annuities in defined contribution plans and making target-date fund disclosure more effective.
The last title of the bill states that jurisdiction of IRA fiduciary regulation oversight should be returned to Treasury. "Prior to the issuance of a 1978 executive order, Treasury had jurisdiction over the fiduciary duty rules applicable to IRAs and those rules are still part of the Internal Revenue Code," the bill states. That jurisdiction "will be returned to Treasury from the Department of Labor."
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, said that under the bill, Treasury would be required "to start from scratch on a rule proposal," which "would delay, and could derail entirely, final completion of these badly needed protections for workers and retirees."
In addition, the bill says that Treasury will have to "consult with the Securities and Exchange Commission in prescribing rules relating to the professional standard of care owed by brokers and investment advisors to IRA owners."
CFA, Roper said, "strongly supports allowing the DOL to move forward with strengthened fiduciary rules, and we believe application of those rules to IRAs is essential to protect the millions of middle-income workers who need to make every penny count in their efforts to fund a modest retirement."
Hatch, ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, said his bill "takes action to stop the DOL from unilaterally over-regulating 401(k) plans and IRAs."


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SuiteCommerce Unifies LittleMissMatched B2B, B2C, In-Store and Mobile Sales into a Single Commerce System
SAN MATEO, Calif.—September 11, 2012—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that LittleMissMatched (www.littlemissmatched.com), an innovative tween brand encouraging individual style and self-expression, has gone live on the new NetSuite SuiteCommerce platform as a complete cloud commerce solution, spanning eCommerce, omnichannel sales across B2B, B2C and retail stores. LittleMissMatched uses NetSuite SuiteCommerce to run eCommerce, financials, inventory management, order management, distribution, customer relationship management, marketing promotions, and other core processes—all without a dedicated IT staff. This has led to successful enhancements in its Direct to Consumer business, as well as global expansion of the brand into Latin America and Japan, and strengthened relationships with its large wholesale partners such as QVC.
"Our business strategy disrupts traditional fashion retail with our unique apparel, accessories, and mismatched socks, but having mismatched software systems running various business channels was definitely not designed for success," said Andrea Gulli, Vice President, Direct to Consumer at LittleMissMatched. "By unifying our multichannel commerce operations in the cloud on NetSuite SuiteCommerce, we are streamlining our business operations while delivering a much higher quality experience for our consumer and business customers."
NetSuite's SuiteCommerce platform is at the heart of NetSuite Commerce as a Service (CaaS), and enables businesses to manage interactions with other businesses and directly with consumers via a cloud platform that delivers an enhanced customer experience, through multiple touchpoints, directly on the core NetSuite ERP/CRM business management application. This technology transcends the limitations and complexity of first-generation eCommerce systems to deliver new efficiencies for merchants and a superior experience for customers. For more information about SuiteCommerce please visit www.netsuite.com.au/suitecommerce.
"LittleMissMatched is an ideal example of a fast-moving and agile retailer that's turned its business ambitions into bottom-line success supported by integrated operations across an omnichannel environment," said Andy Lloyd, NetSuite General Manager of Commerce Products. "We're seeing more and more retailers gain a competitive advantage and strong growth using SuiteCommerce atop the full NetSuite cloud business management solution."
In addition to customer relationship management, marketing promotions, order and inventory management, warehousing and distribution, and financials, NetSuite SuiteCommerce also enables the New York-based company to take advantage of new capabilities for flexible customization to streamline shopping cart and checkout processes on its webstore, introducing new single-page checkout to increase sales and reduce shopping cart abandonment. LittleMissMatched has also enhanced branding and aesthetics in its checkout process, gained new flexibility with SuiteCommerce capabilities for advanced promotions, delivering greater efficiencies and improved customer experience. Using the SuiteCommerce API to build a JSON connector to manage transactions in the core NetSuite ERP / financials system, LittleMissMatched will soon roll out a new mobile shopping environment optimised for smartphones as well.
The SuiteCommerce implementation was led by NetSuite partner Horizon Associates Group, LLC.
"The flexibility of the new SuiteCommerce development platform allowed us to rapidly customise a streamlined shopping cart and checkout process designed to increase eCommerce sales at LittleMissMatched," said Joe Giegerich, Partner at Horizon Associates Group, LLC. "NetSuite has delivered a winning solution with SuiteCommerce that will serve B2C and B2B merchants well as they strive to grow their eCommerce channel."
About LittleMissMatched
By solving the age-old problem of the disappearing sock, LittleMissMatched boldly declares "Matching is Overrated!" LittleMissMatched started in 2003 with a very simple mission: build a tween brand that is FUN, inspires CREATIVITY, embraces individual STYLE, celebrates self Xpression and empowers girls to be YOUnique. LittleMissMatched is headquartered in New York City, has retail stores across the U.S. and can be shopped online at LittleMissMatched.com. While LittleMissMatched started with socks sold in packs of 3, the brand recognised that there's an entire universe out there who shares its passion for creativity and self-expression—socks were just the beginning. From books to bedding, from pjs to pencil pouches and flip flops to furniture, LittleMissMatched says, "think outside the socks"—you can be a kid forever. Be BOLD. YOU be YOU.
About NetSuite
NetSuite Inc. is the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suites. In addition to financials / ERP software suites, NetSuite offers a broad suite of applications, including accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), professional services automation (PSA) and eCommerce that enables companies to manage most of their core business operations in its single integrated suite. NetSuite's "real-time dashboard" technology provides an easy-to-use view into up-to-date, role-specific business information. For more information about NetSuite, please visit www.netsuite.com.au.
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Hello, my name is Joy Delenny
And I hope you can help me.
I am 64 years old, and I have 3 children, my two eldest boys I sent to public school, one of them graduated. My youngest daughter,Catherine is 24 years old now, and I homeschooled her from the second grade on, starting in 1993. I had her enrolled in Seton home study program, and I did not register her with the state of Maryland as being homeschooled, because I did not want the state to interfere in our private lives, and I read it is always better to keep the state out of it.
After one year I started having a lot of health problems, and the schooling got hard for me, and because Cathy has always been a fidget and she would never learn to do her work on her own. I didn`t want the school to think I wasn`t doing what I was supposed to though, so I did most of her work for her and sent it in under her name, so she would pass the grades. I kept on doing that, and all the quarterly tests they sent, so that her record would show she had passed those grades. As for the education part, I bought some good encylopedias and let her read them. We also had cable and she could watch the history channel.
The whole time she was mostly good until she got to be about 12, then she got to be a horrible child, always fussing and saying she wanted to go outside and have friends besides me. Some peopole might not agree with it but I believe in keeping an eye on child, (especially a girl) all the time so I never would let her outside on her own. My reason for that is simple to understand for anybody who watches the news. If I had let her go out and mingle with other children, who knows what might have happened to her! I don`t know all those kids parents, and what they teach their kids! Why should I let my child around just anyone?! Not to mention I was a good friend to my daughter, we were always together, my Husband works, so it was always her and me at home.
The only thing I hate is my health is not better, because we never did really go out in the yard, and I got sensitive to light, so we had to cover most of the windows up, I know she did not like that.
So when it was time for me to either start the high school part of the courses I decided to just stop them because she wasn`t doing the lessons anyhow, I was, so I saw no point to it. But at the same time she cried and fussed and said she wanted a diploma one day, well, I know that everybody these days tries to say how important a diploma is but I never got one and I did fine. I told her that, but she kept on, so I told her I would let her do the GED one day. She just had a fit about all that, but since she was never good at doing the work I told her I was going to stop the Seton program anyway and I did.
It was after that she got really mopey, watching the TV upstairs all day by herself. And my heath got worse, and her attitude din`t make things any better.
When she was 17 she had just got so bad until I didn`t know what in the world to do with her, I found out she had got some razor blades and cut on herself! Every Mother`s nightmare! So I decided to let her start going outside with her Father since she wanted to go out so bad, so my Husband would take her along with him to the restaurant he ate at for dinner. (my health does not allow me to cook)
So then she was getting out in the evenings and still not happy.
Soon after that my Son brought a friend of his around, and I could tell that his friend was interested in my daughter, he seemed like the harmless type, so I let him ask her out, I thought for sure that would make her happy, and for awhile, it seemed like it did! But that was a mistake!
They "dated" for almost a year and things got worse and worse over that time, I had set a 8pm curfew for her and she cried for it to be later.
Then I had the worst scare with her, she came to me and told me that she was late for her period and her abdomen hurt!!! You can imagine how horrified I was! Any Mother would be, and I did yell at her about it, I am not going to lie. But I had her father take her to the hospital, and it turned out to be a cyst on her ovary. I was thankful, but she acted like she wanted an apology from me, and I would not give her one, why? because she is the child, I am the parent, simple as that!!! And anyway i still had my suspicions, and let me tell you, that curfew stood.
Now, after that my daughter got a part time job, but since i could not drive her there due to my health, I allowed her to ride with the Mother of the boy she was dating, another big mistake. My daughter started talking to her about our private life. I am sure that everybody here knows that homeschoolers are often looked on with suspicion...so I never allowed her to talk to anyone but she did talk to that woman and that was the worst of it.
I told my daughter that I wanted her to quit her job, and stop telling our private business to that woman, and what did she do?! She told me that woman had offered to let her come live with them!!! She told me she was moving out of my house, that she was 18 and it was her right!!!
I kown the law says 18 year olds are "adults", but parents know better!!!
To make a long story short, she did leave and live with that woman(the boy did not live with his mother) for a year, and after that she got her own appartment for awhile. It was understood that if she left, she was no longer my daughter, but she did not seem to care
Some time in 2008 she married that boy, and in 2009 she contacted me again and said she was just letting me know that she was going to take legal action against me for not having her in school!!!!
I am almost 65 years old, i cannot go to jail, or pay her a lot of money, what can I do?!
does any one know what I should do, (besides get a lawyer, I got one but he does not know much about cases like this)
THANK you, -Joy Delenny
Someone please HELP
Find or post information on the legal aspects of homeschooling in your state.
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Well, she can sue you over just about anything, the US doesn't assign any penalties for bringing fraudulent lawsuits against someone. I don't know if she'll win, but if she can cause enough harassment she's probably hoping for a cash settlement.
My advice is to contact Home School Legal Defense Association (hslda.org) and your state homeschool group(s) and see if they've run across anything like this before, and if they can offer help with getting it blocked early on.
My advice is to contact Home School Legal Defense Association (hslda.org) and your state homeschool group(s) and see if they've run across anything like this before, and if they can offer help with getting it blocked early on.
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You know, I may be new here, but why do I get the strongest feeling that this is a spoof?
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I'm also not gonna touch this one, lol...but since the OP has posted this on at least 2 other message boards, hopefully if there IS a need, it is addressed.
I will say one thing, however: To the OP and anyone else, if you truly are facing legal action against you, and have for over a year, then you need to watch what you say on message boards and throughout the net...and seek professional legal advice--your state should have Legal Aid or a similar program.
I will say one thing, however: To the OP and anyone else, if you truly are facing legal action against you, and have for over a year, then you need to watch what you say on message boards and throughout the net...and seek professional legal advice--your state should have Legal Aid or a similar program.
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